On Monday, Anna Russell and myself had a fantastic day visiting the birth centre at Townsville. It was a big day - we left Sydney at 9am and returned th
at evening at 10.30pm (talk about a whirlwind tour). We are doing research to help us set up the Janeanna Birth Centre here in Sydney
. We were very impress
ed with Townsville Birth Centre, which is purpose built with community input int
o its design and operation. The birth centre has three birth rooms decorated in different themes: Water, earth and forest. You can see a little of the water and forest rooms here (we didn't get to see the earth room as it was being used at the time).
Each room has it's own enclosed courtyard that was particularly appealing.
We had a few hours after our tour of the birth centre before our flight left Townsville - so we thought we'd find a cool place to write our report. The taxi driver took us to Jamiaca Joe's on the water - needless to say we didn't get very far in our report but we discovered a new cocktail that was particularly refreshing in the tropics.
Written by Jane Palmer
Yesterday Anna and myself had a wonderful visit to Belmont Midwifery Group Practice (formerly known as the Belmont Birthing Service) as part of our fact finding mission for the Janeanna Birth Centre. This services now is a group midwifery practice that offers births at Belmont Hospital in their two birthing rooms, homebirths or at the birth centre at John Hunter Hospital. I thought I share some of my photos. Till my next update Jane xxx
On Monday, Anna Russell and myself had a fantastic day visiting the birth centre at Townsville. It was a big day - we left Sydney at 9am and returned th
at evening at 10.30pm (talk about a whirlwind tour). We are doing research to help us set up the Janeanna Birth Centre here in Sydney
. We were very impress
ed with Townsville Birth Centre, which is purpose built with community input int
o its design and operation. The birth centre has three birth rooms decorated in different themes: Water, earth and forest. You can see a little of the water and forest rooms here (we didn't get to see the earth room as it was being used at the time).
